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		<title>12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 10, 11 and 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In English, a &#8220;baker&#8217;s dozen&#8221; means 13 and not 12, originating from an old practice of bakers giving one loaf extra when someone bought a dozen! Borrowing the idea in a converse sense, I am writing ten articles to cover the 12 chess tactics. Earlier, we devoted one article for each tactics to avoid cluttering [...]


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		<title>Endgame Lessons From Game Twelve of the 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endgame Lessons From Game Twelve of the 2010 Anand-Topalov Match By Steve Coffee The recent world championship match between Vishy Anand and Veselin Topalov was certainly dramatic, and ended in dramatic fashion. With the match tied, Anand won the 12th and final game with the Black pieces. A position near the end of the 12th [...]


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		<title>12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9. Deflection and Decoy Deflection is a chess tactic used as part of a combination. It forces an important defensive piece of the opponent to move from its current position, thereby creating weaknesses which are exploited to create a mating attack or to gain material advantage. It is quite common to see a sacrifice being [...]


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		<title>12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8. Forcing overload on opponent&#8217;s important defensive piece Overload is having to bear more load than what can be sustained, resulting in a breakdown. In chess, a piece gets overloaded when it has to perform multiple duties (like having to defend two pieces) or needs to be at two different positions at the same time [...]


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		<title>12 chess tactics and how to use those to gain advantage – Part 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7. Attacking along the back rank or the seventh rank Though possibility of such attacking tactics may arise in middle game also, these opportuities are more frequently possible during the end of middle game when many of the pieces and pawns have been taken off the board. In such situations, the heavy pieces (Queen and [...]


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